Royal Society Will Soon Begin Making Sense (We Hope) of Extraterrestrial Life

Well, get ready for some pretty wild and wonderful theories as the Royal Society soon attempts to make sense of the matter of extraterrestrial life. I expect the stories to start coming out tomorrow. This is just to warm up the audience.

SaLuSa and his friends will probably order in some take-out and gather around their E-TVs, chuckling.

The Queen’s Astronomer from February of 2010.

Royal astronomer: ‘Aliens may be staring us in the face’

Aliens may be “staring us in the face” in a form humans are unable to recognise, the Queen’s astronomer has said.

Aliens may be ‘staring us in the face’ according to Lord Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society

Lord Martin Rees, president of theRoyal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.

He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life.

“They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognise them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology,” he said.

“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”

He told Prospect magazine that improved telescopes made the chance of finding extra-terrestrial life “better than ever”.

But Dr Frank Drake, the world’s leading “ET hunter”, told the conference that satellite TV and the “digital revolution” was making humanity invisible to aliens by cutting the transmission of TV and radio signals into space.

At present, the Earth is surrounded by a 50 light year-wide “shell” of radiation from analogue TV, radio and radar transmissions. But although the signals have spread far enough to reach many nearby star systems, they are rapidly vanishing in the wake of digital technology, according to Dr Drake.

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someone on the web suspected that this Lord Martin Rees is an alien himself. i don’t know about that, but knowing the long history of the british royal house (and most other royal families) with malivolent aliens, and looking at this man’s face, i can easily imagine so. that nose, mouth…he looks just like a tall grey alien with a human skin over it to me. it would place his ‘Aliens may be staring us in the face’ remark in a whole different light.